Sara MacKillop | Book Cover

Sara MacKillop

Book Cover

London, UK: Blue Feint, 2009

13 x 20 x 0.1 cm., softcover

Edition of 150

A mysterious title that purports to be a facsimile reprint of something published by the BBC decades ago. The only information I can find is on the verso: 

"The material on which this book is based was compiled and edited by Norman Longmate, who before joining the staff of the BBC as a radio producer in school broadcasting was himself a freelance scriptwriter, contributing to both radio and television. He is now a member of the BBC Secretariat."

Book Cover is available from Art Metropole, here, for $7.50 CDN. 

Sara MacKillop | Typewriter Manual

Sara MacKillop

Typewriter Manual

London, UK: The Block, 2012

spiral-bound

Edition of 250

David Bellingham | Hour Hand/Minute Hand

David Bellingham

Hour Hand/Minute Hand

Glasgow, Scotland: Wax366, 2019

5.2 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm.

Edition of 100 numbered copies

The latest addition to our modest Time Piece collection is this David Bellingham work from 2019. Seven of the below nine works are functional, and this is also, in that the piece is wearable. It consists of an hour and minute hand repurposed from watch hands, set in stirling silver stud earrings. 

It’s a nice accidental sister work to Colleen Savage’s Horological Ornithology, which frees non-cuckoo birds from cuckoo clocks (see post here). 

Hour Hand/Minute Hand is available from the publisher, here, for £100.00.

Clocks

Clocks (mostly functional) by Jon Sasaki, Ricky Swallow, Sara MacKillop, Fluxus, Tauba Auerbach, Bruno Munari, Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis, Bob Watts, Tim Hawkinson. GuyGuyGuy, Per Kirkeby Eunice Luk, George Brecht, Yoshitomo Nara and Marti Guixe.  

Two of the works are titled Envelope Clock: Sara MacKillop's numbered envelopes which fan out to mimic a clock and Tim Hawkinson's envelope with functioning clock hands made from the clasp. 

Sara MacKillop | Envelope Clock

Sara MacKillop

Envelope Clock

Self-published, 2013

12 pp., 11.5 x 16.4 cm., softcover

Edition of 40 signed and numbered copies

Created for the Wysing music and Arts festival in 2013, this series of found envelopes have been clasped in the corner  in a way that allows them to fan out like a sample. With each envelope marked from one to twelve, this fanning produces a kind of clock. 

See also, Tim Hawkinson's work of the same name, here. 

Envelope Clock is available for $61.00 CDN at Art Metropole, here. 

Sara MacKillop | Book stand book (marble)

Sara MacKillop
Book stand book (marble)
London, UK: Self-published, 2013
Dimensions variables
Edition of 10 [+ 1 AP]

Sara MacKillop | I've Got My New Argos Catalogue

Sara MacKillop
I've Got My New Argos Catalogue
Toronto, Canada: Bookclub, 2015
41 x 43 cm.
Edition of 45

For the fourth consecutive year, Bookclub (myself and 9 other artists, curators, publishers, collectors, gallerists, etc.) have produced a canvas bookbag in December. These are typically funded through speaking engagements by the group. They are not for sale, and are distributed to the artist, Bookclub members and a few friends. Michael Dumontier produced the first bag in 2012, Kay Rosen the second in 2013, and Claude Closky in 2014.

The 2015 bag is by Sara MacKillop.

Argos is one of the largest retailers operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with over 750 stores and 800 million website visits a year. It was estimated last year that 96% of the population of the UK was within 10 miles of an Argos branch. The company produced a yearly catalogue (see below) and it's launch was an anticipated event, not dissimilar to the Sears Wishbook in Canada (in its heyday) and Ikea worldwide. Argos would set up kiosks in train stations and distribute the catalogues to commuters, who would travel their trip with a plastic carrier bag that read "I've got my new Argos catalogue".

With a move towards online operations the catalogue has been discontinued in many areas of the country and seriously scaled back in the others. Here MacKillop takes the discontinued, disposable shopping bag from the UK and relocates it to Toronto (where it's origins would rarely be known) and repurposes it as a permanent, sturdy canvas bag.

Sara MacKillop | Argos 1976

Sara MacKillop
Argos 1976
London, UK: The Everyday Press, 2014
[unpaginated], 24.7 x 19.7 cm., softcover
Edition of 40 [+2 AP] , numbered copies

A complete facsimile of the Argos Catalogue 1976. Full colour digital print on paper, perfect bound.

Bookclub Spoils

Bookclub Bookbags

Each fall Bookclub commissions an artist to design a book bag that we produce in a very small edition, for distribution among Bookclub members and their friends. Above are the 2012 bags (Michael Dumontier), 2013 (Kay Rosen) and 2014 (Claude Closky). Sara Mackillop will design the 2015 bag, due in December.

Visit her website, here.

Bookclub members include myself, Bill Clarke, Wendy Gomoll, Michael Klein, Micah Lexier, Derek McCormack, Roula Partheniou, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Derek Sullivan, and Paul Van Kooy.

Paul + Wendy Projects

In addition to our own books and multiples (including four or five we are launching there, depending on a shipment arriving today or not), we will have a number of editions by Paul+Wendy Projects at the London Art Book Fair next week, including works by Micah Lexier, Derek Sullivan, Sara MacKillop, David Shrigley, Michael Dumontier, and ourselves.